Dr. Heine holds the CIGI Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, is Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). From 1994 to 1999 he was Ambassador of Chile to South Africa. He was also Ambassador of Chile to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka from 2003 to 2007. He has served as a Cabinet Minister and Deputy Minister in the Chilean Government. He has been a Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a Research Associate at The Wilson Center in Washington DC. After completing law school at the University of Chile, he earned a B.Phil. in Modern Political Analysis from the University of York, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.